Expert Panel: Designing and Building Web-Scale Systems

This panel discussion brings together experts and thought leaders in the industry to discuss what web-scale converged infrastructure is, why enterprises should care, and how companies can bring elements of web-scale into their data centers.

Hyperconverged infrastructure based solutions have historically been knocked as not ready for your tier 0/1 workloads. Nothing could be further from the truth. Attend this informative and technical session to understand how an enterprise cloud built on HCI is the ideal solution for supporting the performance and availability requirements of enterprise applications and databases from Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, IBM, Splunk and others. You’ll also learn that high performance workloads don’t require high complexity and infrastructure silos.

Blending public and private clouds is a strategic goal for many organizations. Join us in this unique session describing how Google and Nutanix join forces to bring this objective to fruition.

We will preview how Nutanix customers can natively and instantly extend their environment to cloud services delivered from Google data centers. We will also discuss how customers can benefit from bleeding-edge technologies like Kubernetes in their on-prem infrastructure.

The cloud era has reset expectations of enterprise IT services. Internal and external consumers of IT resources demand the agility and scalability of public clouds no matter what infrastructure they are using. As a result, today’s CIOs and infrastructure, Basis, and DBA teams are looking to have true cloud-like simplicity and flexibility in their datacenters to stay competitive and support their business. They must also support workloads outside the datacenter on public, hybrid and edge clouds without adding complexity.

What does this new enterprise IT stack look like, and how can organizations leverage the latest innovations as they put their datacenter and cloud strategies into practice for their SAP and non-SAP workloads? Attend this session to hear real-world examples and discussion of these topics, including:

• How to build and implement a successful cloud strategy
• When to leverage public cloud services (and when not to)
• Innovations in datacenter technologies that drive greater efficiency and performance
• The continued shift in IT consumption, and how to find the right balance between renting and owning cloud infrastructure

You’ll come away with a deeper understanding of the benefits, complications and how to confidently tackle these important business and IT challenges.

Blending public and private clouds is a strategic goal for many organizations. Join us in this unique session describing how Google and Nutanix join forces to bring this objective to fruition. We will preview how Nutanix customers can natively and instantly extend their environment to cloud services delivered from Google datacenters. We will also discuss how customers can benefit from bleeding-edge technologies like Kubernetes in their on-prem infrastructure

Nutanix 101: An introduction to the nuts and bolts of Nutanix and Prism Management

Nutanix Overview - Naming conventions and agnostic hardware and hypervisor support
Nutanix technical detail - where and how the software runs and handles data
Prism Management Demo - Detailed run through the core entities in Prism

Fact #1: The majority of Nutanix deployments are running multiple different workloads. Fact #2: More than 50% of new workloads deployed on Nutanix Enterprise Cloud are enterprise applications, including business-critical Oracle and SQL Server databases, SAP applications servers, big data apps including MongoDB, and tier one applications. Learn from technology and product experts why Nutanix is the smart choice for running all of your workloads in a single environment.

Chances are you’re spending way too much time managing your virtualization stack, and paying far too much for what you’re getting. In the cloud era, the hypervisor should be invisible, built-in and license free.

Come learn from Nutanix engineers proven AHV strategies for running nearly any virtual workload, see live demonstrations and take full advantage of advanced AHV capabilities, such as VM mobility, resource scheduling and native networking features.

Are you a Nutanix Newbie? Jump into this introductory product session to learn the fundamentals of Nutanix Enterprise Cloud software and its key capabilities. Learn the basics of hyper converged infrastructure, and understand how to deploy Nutanix in your datacenter or branch/remote office.

Drastic career changes can be intimidating but realizing your full potential can be worth the risk. After 9 years in manufacturing Paul Woodward Jr (@ExploreVM) made the leap into IT, leaving it all behind for a 3 month contract. Follow Paul's journey from CNC operator to VCP, to VMUG presenter & Nutanix Technology Champion .NEXT Session speaker with all the twists, turns, and roadblocks he encountered along the way.

Are you wondering how to solve repetitive tasks with software automation, but you struggle every time you see the word “developer” or “code?” In this session, we’ll explore the framework that can apply to mundane tasks (i.e. powershell, pester), and we’ll discuss what open source tools are available to help solve these problems. Walk away with the advice you need to get started!

It’s not news to anyone in IT that container technology has become one of the fastest growing areas of innovation. We’re excited about this trend and are continuously enhancing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to make it a great place to run containers. Join us to learn more about how to get started with GCP and why it is the “container-optimized” cloud.

Machine learning and machine intelligence have moved into the corporate datacenter. Along with seeing live demos of machine learning in action, attendees will learn how advanced algorithms can rapidly analyze large data sets to find relevant patterns, and employ inferential learning to make real-time adjustments to datacenter processes.

We're living in a centralized world—but that’s all about to change with the proliferation of Intelligent IoT devices, sensors and machine to machine (M2M) communication. Big data, security, governance and compliance are just a few of the key challenges to consider. Attendees will learn how to create and run agile intelligent M2M applications, analyze and predict behavior and drive greater business value.

Infrastructure can make or break a VDI project. Successful Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp deployments require efficient, high performance and scalable IT infrastructure to deliver a great user experience. Hear from actual VDI project owners about what it takes to make Citrix VDI successful, and get a sneak peek into where Citrix + Nutanix integration is headed next.

Oracle apps and databases power an organization’s most critical workloads. There is a time to be conservative, but not when it means sacrificing the performance, availability and economics of your Oracle infrastructure. Come listen to veteran enterprise IT managers running Oracle on Nutanix, and loving it. Go home with details about architecting an efficient environment for Oracle eBusiness Suite, deploying test/dev environments and running core Oracle databases in production, and at scale.

Which cloud—private or public—will provide the right profile of application performance, availability and cost for your business? What about security, workload lifespan and scaling? These are some of the pressing questions facing IT leaders. This in-depth strategy session, headlined by IDC analyst Eric Sheppard, will explore the breadth of business and technical considerations for choosing the right cloud environment. Get a proven methodology to plan public, private and hybrid cloud architectures.

Nutanix makes IT infrastructure invisible with an enterprise cloud platform that delivers the agility and economics of the public cloud, without sacrificing the security and control of on-premises infrastructure.